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Culture shock, role reversal, and adapting to a new society are major challenges for immigrants to meet. For older immigrants, a move to a Western society with a remarkably different sociocultural milieu can be overwhelming and stressful. Perhaps because of the media stereotypes of Asians as the "model minority", the fact that most have immigrated recently, and the assumption that Asian Americans take care of their own, scant attention has been paid to the issues of older Asian immigrants.Acknowledging the diversity among older Asian Indian immigrants to the United States, this book evaluates their life satisfaction. This study conducted with 50 elderly Asian Indian immigrants finds that gender differences in levels of life satisfaction were significant, and that self-assessed health is the strongest predictor of life satisfaction. Other contributors to life satisfaction included reasons for coming to the United States, living arrangement, and social networks. The historical and sociocultural framework for aging in India is presented as a contextualizing exercise for the study of older Asian Indians in the United States. This study addresses the issues of cultural barriers, intergenerational relations, and filial piety, and highlights the implications for gerontological practice.
At some point during the 1990s the size of the Asian Indian population in the United States surpassed the one million mark. Today&’s Indians in America are a diverse group. They come from every state in India as well as from around the globe: England, Canada, South Africa, Tanzania, Fiji, Guyana, and Trinidad. They also belong to many religious faiths, including Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Jainism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. Many have high professional skills and are fluent in English and familiar with Western culture. They have settled throughout the United States, largely in metropolitan areas. Namast&é America tells this story of Indian immigrants in America, focusing on one of the largest communities, Chicago.
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated early in life and those who immigrated late in life—and features interview excerpts that bring these issues to life. The book shows how the life courses of individuals, including discrimination they may have faced in earlier years, can shape their golden years. As they grow older, Asian Americans continue to struggle to fit into American society—this is true even of those who are highly educated, relatively affluent, and have lived and worked with non-Asian Americans for most of their lives. As the Leaves Turn Gold discusses not only the challenges older Asian Americans face, such as lack of adequate support services, but also local and transnational solutions. As the Leaves Turn Gold is an important examination of aging, immigration, and social inequality.
Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community--Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area--bound by neither geographic proximity, nor institutional ties, and explores the processes through which ethnic identity is transmitted to the next generation. Bacon's study centers upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of its family members. Both extensive field work among community organizations and analyses of ethnic media help Bacon expose the complicated interplay between the private social interactions of family life and the stylized rhetoric of "Indianness" that permeates public life. This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels the assimilation process experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.
Most Asian Indian older immigrants who settle in this country after the age of 60 are sponsored by their adult children under The Family Reunification Act of 1990, which offered many naturalized and legal immigrants the opportunity to encourage their parents to relocate to the United States (U.S.). The primary reasons that late-life immigrants relocate to the U.S., are to assist their adult children with childcare or to facilitate caregiving. They are often a vulnerable population due to limited English language proficiency, little or no U.S. work experience and weak ties to social institutions. Among Asian Indians, there is greater reliance on families who play a crucial role in the health and well-being of older adults. Using an integrated framework incorporating aspects of Acculturation theory with the Relational and Resilience Theory of Ethnic Family Resilience, this qualitative study focuses on the unique challenges of aging out of place in the immigrant context, in addition to highlighting the concomitant challenges faced by the families in adjusting to multigenerational living arrangements and intergenerational relationships. A total of 20 participants from 8 Asian Indian families residing in the United States, were interviewed using qualitative in-depth interviews. The participants consisted of 9 late-life parents aged 70 to 89 who relocated to the U.S., between 5 to 20 years ago, 8 adult children with whom the parents reside and 3 spouses. Data were analyzed using a thematic analysis protocol. The findings suggest that late-life immigrants can adapt to U.S. culture with the support of their families and with the addition of community involvement. Positive relationships with children and grandchildren support this acculturation process and provide a route to adaptation for older adults that also contribute to family well-being. The reciprocity of benefits for older adults and their families also enhances the intergenerational aspects of family resilience. Research findings will contribute to the development of a resilience framework that will help inform effective assessments and intervention strategies, for clinicians and other helping professionals, in their efforts to identify key family processes that cultivate, develop, and nurture family system resilience in immigrant families.
Asian Indians who immigrate to the United States late in life to reunite with their children often form a secluded community. As one of the most under-researched segments of the population, very little is known about their lives. This new study, therefore, intends to create a small opening in the closed walls that surround the community and give us all a glimpse into their world. Lack of research forces service providers to treat this population with relative ignorance of their underlying foundations. Through the exploration of multiple dimensions of this growing ethnic minority group, this book greatly contributes to the multicultural counseling field. With depleted social capital, resulting isolation, and other problems that affect quality of life, these seniors would greatly benefit with the design of programs specifically targeted toward them. The first study of its kind, this enlightening book addresses the needs of this poorly understood community. Asian Indian Older Adults in Silicon Valley is based off of dissertation research on this secluded community. A definitive resource in understanding what contributes to the successful aging of this ethnic minority population, the book sheds light on the multiple risks of aging and immigration late in life. Proving to be extremely useful to a multitude of people, this educational study could be utilized by seniors and their families, service providers such as counselors, therapists, and mental health professionals, researchers, and government and policy-making bodies that deal with the ever-changing demographics of our country. A multifaceted and multipurpose new book, Asian Indian Older Adults in Silicon Valley is perhaps one of the most useful tools that proponents of this population group have ever had.
Investigates The Consequences Of Migration For Those Indian`S Specially Who Migrated To United States After Changes In Immigration Laws Of 1905 - Their Life Styles And Patterns Of Adaptions - The Study Shows Preference For Cultural Pluralism And Not Assimilation Or Complete Americanization. 6 Chapters - Bibliography - Glossary - Index.